Distributed storage capacity at load centers (e.g., deferrable demand) can lower total system costs by lessening the differences between the peak and the lowest daily demand, thus reducing the conventional generating capacity needed for reliability purposes. These savings have impacts both on the operational and capital expenses of the peaking units used for generating adequacy, and therefore o...

In this paper, we present a novel family of multiscale local feature descrip1 tors, a theoretically and intuitively well justified variant of SURF which is 2 straightforward to implement but which nevertheless is capable of demon3 strably better performance with comparable computational cost. Our family 4 of descriptors, called Gauge-SURF (G-SURF), are based on second-order 5 multiscale gauge d...

objective(s): pei based nanoparticle (np) due to dual capabilities of proton sponge and dna binding is known as powerful tool for nucleic acid delivery to cells. however, serious cytotoxicity and complicated conditions, which govern nps properties and its interactions with cells practically, hindered achievement to high transfection efficiency. here, we have tried to optimize the properties of ...

Parameter estimation is the first step in constructing any control chart. Most estimators of mean and dispersion are sensitive to the presence of outliers. The data may be contaminated by outliers either locally or globally. The exciting robust estimators deal only with global contamination. In this paper a robust estimator for dispersion is proposed to reduce the effect of local contamination ...

the aim of this study was to assess the relative efficiency of the iranian forest management plans using the non-parametric method – data envelopment analysis (dea) as a well-known and robust technique for measuring the relative efficiency of organizations. the relative efficiency of forest management plans was calculated using the most frequency dea models such as global technical efficiency (...

The efficiency and robustness of reliability methods are two important factors in the first-order reliability method (FORM). The conjugate choice control (CCC) and directional chaos control method (DCC) are developed to improve the robustness and efficiency of the FORM formula using the stability transformation method. In this paper, the CCC and DCC methods are applied for the reliability analy...

In the random assignment problem, objects are randomly assigned to agents keeping in view the agents’ preferences over objects. A random assignment specifies the probability of an agent getting an object. We examine the structural and computational aspects of ex post efficiency of random assignments. We first show that whereas an ex post efficient assignment can be computed easily, checking whe...

This document provides a brief proposal for “Robust Optimization & Robust Control Synthesis” reading group.

Nonreciprocal signal operation is highly desired for various acoustic applications, where protection from unwanted backscattering can be realized so that transmitting and receiving signals are processed in a full-duplex mode. Here we present the realization of class nonreciprocal circulators based on simply structured metagratings, which consist only few solid cylinders steady fluid flow with l...